JamesStewart &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:JamesStewart @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:07:28 +0200 Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d0bj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Bell Book and Candle (1958)/div div class="caption" Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her Siamese, Pyewacket. DP: James Wong Howe./div div class="txt" "I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… 'What would you say if I told you I was a witch?'" ### – Queenie /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #RichardQuine #JohnVanDruten #GeorgeDuning #JamesWongHowe #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #witches #witchcraft #cats #theatre #USA #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)

Mar

12

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her Siamese, Pyewacket. DP: James Wong Howe.

“I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… 'What would you say if I told you I was a witch?'”

– Queenie

#FilmDuJour #March #RichardQuine #JohnVanDruten #GeorgeDuning #JamesWongHowe #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #witches #witchcraft #cats #theatre #USA #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d0bj Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-j79m <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Rope (1948)/div div class="caption" A man in a dark suit has his clenched hand on top of a stack of fancy gilded dinner plates. He's holding a piece of rope, just an ordinary household article. DPs: William V. Skall & Joseph A. Valentine./div div class="txt" "Mr. Cadell got a bad leg in the war for his courage. And you've got your sleeve in the celery, Mr. Phillip." ### – Mrs. Wilson\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #AlfredHitchcock #PatrickHamilton #DickHogan #JohnDall #FarleyGranger #EdithEvanson #DouglasDick #JoanChandler #CedricHardwicke #ConstanceCollier #JamesStewart #DavidButtolph #WilliamVSkall #JosephAValentine #suspense #drama #biography #thriller #LGBT #theatre #crime #USA #1940s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)

Jun

9

Rope (1948)

A man in a dark suit has his clenched hand on top of a stack of fancy gilded dinner plates. He's holding a piece of rope, just an ordinary household article. DPs: William V. Skall & Joseph A. Valentine.

“Mr. Cadell got a bad leg in the war for his courage. And you've got your sleeve in the celery, Mr. Phillip.”

– Mrs. Wilson

#FilmDinner #AlfredHitchcock #PatrickHamilton #DickHogan #JohnDall #FarleyGranger #EdithEvanson #DouglasDick #JoanChandler #CedricHardwicke #ConstanceCollier #JamesStewart #DavidButtolph #WilliamVSkall #JosephAValentine #suspense #drama #biography #thriller #LGBT #theatre #crime #USA #1940s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-j79m Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:55:27 +0200 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/vertigo-1958 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" Golden Gate Bridge/div div class="img" Vertigo (1958)/div div class="caption" A pensive Novak in black in front of a sunlit Golden Gate Bridge. DP: Robert Burks./div div class="txt" A bridge to celebrate the 1937 Golden Gate Bridge opening. "Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice." ### \ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #GoldenGateBridge #AlfredHitchcock #Hitchcock #PierreBoileau #ThomasNarcejac #JamesStewart #KimNovak #SanFrancisco #BernardHerrmann #RobertBurks #mystery #drama #crime #thriller #romance #SanFrancisco #BookAdaptation #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

May

27

Golden Gate Bridge

Vertigo (1958)

A pensive Novak in black in front of a sunlit Golden Gate Bridge. DP: Robert Burks.

A bridge to celebrate the 1937 Golden Gate Bridge opening.

“Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice.”

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #GoldenGateBridge #AlfredHitchcock #Hitchcock #PierreBoileau #ThomasNarcejac #JamesStewart #KimNovak #SanFrancisco #BernardHerrmann #RobertBurks #mystery #drama #crime #thriller #romance #SanFrancisco #BookAdaptation #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/vertigo-1958 Sat, 27 May 2023 21:21:56 +0200 Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/harvey-1950 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" freebie: Easter Sunday/div div class="img" Harvey (1950)/div div class="caption" Promotional photo. James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, holding a stuffed anthropomorphic rabbit. Both man and bunny wear black hats and smile at the camera. DP: William H. Daniels./div div class="txt" ##### James Stewart is Elwood P. Dowd. An ordinary man with an extraordinary claim: his best friend is an invisible, six feet three and a half inches-tall #pooka – a mythological Celtic, shapeshifting creature – who in Mr Dowd's case resembles a rabbit called Harvey. Elwood's sister and niece, who also occasionally see the furry goblin, have their relative send to a sanatorium where the doctors and us viewers learn more about this curious case.\ "Harvey and I sit in the bars… have a drink or two… play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, 'We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella'." ### – Elwood P. Dowd\ ##### Harvey, based on Mary Chase's #PulitzerPrize​Play with the same name, is guaranteed to bring a smile on your face, this humbug's scout's honour! Have a nice #Easter, CineMastodons!/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #EasterSunday #HenryKoster #MaryChase #JamesStewart #FrankSkinner #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #fantasy #drama #animals #rabbits #theatre #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)

Apr

9

freebie: Easter Sunday

Harvey (1950)

Promotional photo. James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, holding a stuffed anthropomorphic rabbit. Both man and bunny wear black hats and smile at the camera. DP: William H. Daniels.

James Stewart is Elwood P. Dowd. An ordinary man with an extraordinary claim: his best friend is an invisible, six feet three and a half inches-tall #pooka – a mythological Celtic, shapeshifting creature – who in Mr Dowd's case resembles a rabbit called Harvey. Elwood's sister and niece, who also occasionally see the furry goblin, have their relative send to a sanatorium where the doctors and us viewers learn more about this curious case.

“Harvey and I sit in the bars… have a drink or two… play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, 'We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella'.”

– Elwood P. Dowd

Harvey, based on Mary Chase's #PulitzerPrize​Play with the same name, is guaranteed to bring a smile on your face, this humbug's scout's honour! Have a nice #Easter, CineMastodons!

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #EasterSunday #HenryKoster #MaryChase #JamesStewart #FrankSkinner #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #fantasy #drama #animals #rabbits #theatre #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/harvey-1950 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:35:15 +0200 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-1939 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" National Smith Day/div div class="img" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)/div div class="caption" Mr. Jefferson Smith (a squeaky young Jimmy Stewart) holds up a travel-guide of Washington, D.C. to Saunders (Jean Arthur). DP: Joseph Walker./div div class="txt" "The Chair recognizes… Senator Smith!" ### – President of Senate\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalSmithDay #FrankCapra #JeanArthur #JamesStewart #ClaudeRains #DimitriTiomkin #JosephWalker #drama #comedy #politics #filibuster #WashingtonDC #USA #1930s/div /section ]]>

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)

Jan

6

National Smith Day

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mr. Jefferson Smith (a squeaky young Jimmy Stewart) holds up a travel-guide of Washington, D.C. to Saunders (Jean Arthur). DP: Joseph Walker.

“The Chair recognizes… Senator Smith!”

– President of Senate

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalSmithDay #FrankCapra #JeanArthur #JamesStewart #ClaudeRains #DimitriTiomkin #JosephWalker #drama #comedy #politics #filibuster #WashingtonDC #USA #1930s

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